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Movie Time 2.0: TT mini reviews

Issun

Issun

Chumpy
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Paul le Fou said:
Beau is Afraid is a weird-ass movie. It's basically a nightmare about what if your anxiety came true with heaping helpings of paranoia and abuse. It's darkly funny if you like watching a hapless chump get completely screwed by a kafkaesque surreal world.
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It definitely hits close to home if you've got serious anxiety issues (hello!). I really liked it, though. It's my second favorite Aster film after Midsommar (Hereditary is probably better than Beau but while it is an incredible film up to the last 5 minutes or so, it didn't hit as hard for me as his other two films).
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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Rewatching Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile and Romancing isn't quite as good as I remember. Both are not great at portraying non-whites; in the first movie they are either background or criminals of some flavour and Jewel they are basically cartoonishly violent. This is to say, it's all very 80s. The set pieces aren't super great but at least Douglas and Turner have charm in the first one. The second one they are struggling there due to the script, which I feel like has a good starting point ("Hey, how do we deal with it when the heat of the moment cools down and are just living day to day") but it doesn't result in a good movie, sadly. Watchable enough. DeVito is trying so, so hard.
 
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